Oracle Designer - replacement product

Has anyone found a suitable replacement for Designer now that it is no longer being developed?
I know there are data modelling features in SQL Developer/Data Modeller, and there are a few UML diagrams in JDeveloper, but I'm looking for a repository-based CASE tool that supports concurrent access, reporting, cross-referencing... the things we took for-granted back in 2000!
M

SDDM can export to a reporting repository in a database. This is intended to be read-only, but it is well documented so that you can write reports and other applications against it. Marc de Oliveira did a presentation at ODTUG K'Scope 11 showing some of the uses he has made of this. For instance, he uses it to generate and maintain lookup tables.
The active working repository for SDDM is a set of XML files, which can be source controlled in Subversion.
I've been doing something a little weird - I do logical design in SDDM, generate a relational design, generate the SQL DDL, then read the DDL into the database designer in JDeveloper to finish the physical database design. I do it this way because I far prefer JDeveloper's XML format for table definitions to SDDM's. I find JDev's XML files to be human readable, while SDDM's aren't. So I have confidence that my JDev designs will be usable even if Oracle does something unexpected, like abandon JDev for NetBeans.

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